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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach

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